European links
The commissar vanishes, examples of Soviet-era photo adjustment to control history. (The joke was that the Soviet Union was the only country with an unpredictable past.)
You can’t keep a “good idea” down: The Culture Secretary faced a call to resign yesterday after it emerged that a hospital publicity photograph was digitally altered to insert his picture.
James Purnell found himself in an embarrassing situation over the disclosure just two weeks after he warned broadcasters of the danger of losing the trust of viewers. Call to rewrite British history to emphasize role of other groups (such as Muslims).
About Tony Judt’s history of postwar Europe that carefully does not look too hard (pdf) at Europe’s present.
Sweden-a nice country where dissent is not so nicely suppressed and the murder rate is currently twice the US’s.
Remembering Pym Fortuyn. Considering what he meant.
Chess Champion Gary Kasparov is taking on Putin: this may not be good for his health.
A list of the top 100 Brit Lefties.
A government-owned TV station (France 2) sued bloggers for claiming that the video of an infamous incident when a Palestinian boy was allegedly killed by Israeli fire was faked. One of the bloggers was convicted, he is appealing and only now has the court asked to see the original footage.
Police in Oslo investigating and charging taxi drivers with tax evasion, welfare fraud and suspicion of drugs and arms smuggling.
Amsterdam has some quite ambitious young lads of Moroccan background: not in a good way though.
The UK appears to be having a bit of a Rumanian crime wave.
UN Commissioner sees wave of anti-Muslim intolerance in Europe which should be tackled. On the other hand: The Times of London, relying on a police report, recently observed that the Deobandis, a fundamentalist sect, now run nearly half of the 1,350 mosques in Britain and train the vast majority of the Muslim clerics who get their training in the country. The man who might become the sect’s spiritual leader in Britain, Riyadh ul Haq, believes that friendship with a Christian or a Jew makes “a mockery of Allah’s religion.”
Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, perhaps not so nice in his outlook.
A Europe which finds blaming the US is a lot easier than facing real problems.
You can’t keep a “good idea” down: The Culture Secretary faced a call to resign yesterday after it emerged that a hospital publicity photograph was digitally altered to insert his picture.
James Purnell found himself in an embarrassing situation over the disclosure just two weeks after he warned broadcasters of the danger of losing the trust of viewers. Call to rewrite British history to emphasize role of other groups (such as Muslims).
About Tony Judt’s history of postwar Europe that carefully does not look too hard (pdf) at Europe’s present.
Sweden-a nice country where dissent is not so nicely suppressed and the murder rate is currently twice the US’s.
Remembering Pym Fortuyn. Considering what he meant.
Chess Champion Gary Kasparov is taking on Putin: this may not be good for his health.
A list of the top 100 Brit Lefties.
A government-owned TV station (France 2) sued bloggers for claiming that the video of an infamous incident when a Palestinian boy was allegedly killed by Israeli fire was faked. One of the bloggers was convicted, he is appealing and only now has the court asked to see the original footage.
Police in Oslo investigating and charging taxi drivers with tax evasion, welfare fraud and suspicion of drugs and arms smuggling.
Amsterdam has some quite ambitious young lads of Moroccan background: not in a good way though.
The UK appears to be having a bit of a Rumanian crime wave.
UN Commissioner sees wave of anti-Muslim intolerance in Europe which should be tackled. On the other hand: The Times of London, relying on a police report, recently observed that the Deobandis, a fundamentalist sect, now run nearly half of the 1,350 mosques in Britain and train the vast majority of the Muslim clerics who get their training in the country. The man who might become the sect’s spiritual leader in Britain, Riyadh ul Haq, believes that friendship with a Christian or a Jew makes “a mockery of Allah’s religion.”
Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, perhaps not so nice in his outlook.
A Europe which finds blaming the US is a lot easier than facing real problems.